Next Week in Music | Sept. 2-8 • The Long List: 450+ Releases On...
Ready or not, here it comes. The first Friday of September — and the first Bandcamp Friday of the fall — promises to be the crazybusiest day for music...
Next Week in Music | Sept. 2-8 • 12 New Books
I am midway through Moon Unit Zappa’s new memoir Earth To Moon. Spoiler alert: Her upbringing was not like yours and mine — unless you were raised in L.A....
Next Week in Music | Sept. 2-8 • On TV
If I covered streaming TV instead of music, I'd be all over the return of the magnificent Slow Horses. But I don't, so I'm not — even though Jackson...
Next Week in Music | Aug. 26 – Sept. 1 • The Short List:...
New music from Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, Laurie Anderson, Ty Segall, Steve Wynn, Amy Rigby, Fastbacks and the late Tony Allen — all in the same week?...
Next Week in Music | Aug. 26 – Sept. 1 • The Long List:...
Summer's almost over — but the new releases never stop coming. Behold the ever-expanding list of new albums, EPs, singles, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks, vinyl reissues and...
Next Week in Music | Aug. 26 – Sept. 1 • 15 New Books
I am not one of those people who pledges to read 50 books during the summer or anything. I don't need that kind of pressure. But if you happen...
Next Week in Music | Aug. 26 – Sept. 1 • On TV
It's quiet out there in TV land. So quiet, in fact, that if I didn't include reruns in this post, it would be shorter than Glenn Danzig. On the...
Kensington Market Jazz Festival Returns For Ninth Swinging Year
Cue the scatted syllables and snapping fingers: The Kensington Market Jazz Festival returns to the streets of Toronto the weekend of Sept. 27-29. And when it arrives, it won’t...
Next Week in Music | Aug. 19-25 • The Short List: 13 Titles To...
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. Illuminati Hotties and Fontaines D.C. Steve Cropper and Colin James. The Alarm, Uniform, Secret Beach, Melt-Banana and more. Not bad for the middle of...
Next Week in Music | Aug. 19-25 • The Long List: 360+ Releases On...
Aug. 18, as any music fan knows, is the anniversary of one of the most important events in rock history: The 1962 Horticultural Society dance in Birkenhead, England. What's...
Next Week in Music | Aug. 19-25 • 5 New Books
Moon Unit Zappa’s memoir, a bio of musical outsider Harry Smith and a collection of rock critic Dave Marsh's writing are all I need to get me through the...
Next Week in Music | Aug. 19-25 • On TV
Take note: If you're a fan of Seth Meyers’ 8G Band — which includes Les Savy Fav bassist Syd Butler, former Girls Against Boys keyboardist Eli Janney and (sometimes) Fred...
Toronto’s Liss Gallery Celebrates The Rock Visions Of Legendary Photographer Bob Gruen
If you’ve ever thumbed through a music magazine or gazed at a poster of a legendary rock star, the chances are good you were looking at the work of...
Willie Nelson’s 153rd Album, Last Leaf On The Tree, Is About ‘Facing Death With...
Willie Nelson has been singing On The Road Again for decades. But with his upcoming album Last Leaf On The Tree, it seems like he's eyeing the end of...
Next Week in Music | Aug. 12-18 • The Short List: 10 Titles You...
Ray and Shelby. Jon and Jontavious. Devon and Delicate Steve. A Blind Pilot and more than one Horse Jumper. You'll meet some very intriguing people if you swipe right...
